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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Different
Construct
Constructs
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Persons
Artifice
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